🔴Have you ever considered joining the statutory Financial Services Consumer Panel? … Two of my Panel colleagues are coming to the end of their terms of office and FCA are now seeking new members - Please find details below 👇
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This would be welcome and in addition, let’s make support and pathways to it fit for purpose for carers of all ages with it underpin by national carer strategy, register and covenant plus an independent commissioner. Also needed is an overhaul of DWP vulnerable customer identification and support.
Have you considered joining the Financial Services Consumer Panel ? … A number of my colleagues are sadly nearing the end of their terms as panel members and the FCA have today posted details of Panel vacancies … For details please see and share 👇
www.fca.org.uk/panels/consu...
Austentatious it was fabulous to see you today (9/8) at the Edinburgh Fringe and thank you for bringing my suggestion of “Rachel’s Autumn Taxing Dilemma” to life - I dedicate this new Jane Austen title to Rt Hon Rachel Reeve’s MP and for a similar positive fiscal outcome
www.austentatiousimpro.com
Having been laid before Parliament on 17th July the Financial Services Consumer Panel 2024/25 Report has been published this morning (6/8), please see and feel free to share it at …
www.fca.org.uk/panels/consu...
Personal disclosure - I am a member of the Panel.
#ImproveOutcomes
Having worked closely with Macmillan’s financial guidance, grants and policy teams, whilst the service closure is disappointing, it’s a call to action to now bring a coalition of the willing together to maintain support for vulnerable people.
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As always with AtW, we will have to wait and see how this is implemented and how individual Case Managers interpret the guidance…I urge caution and flexibility as we collectively seek to both get, and keep, Britain 🇬🇧 working and earning.
#AtW #AccessToWork
- Monitors and monitor arms
- Remarkable tablets and such productivity devices
This change will potentially be significant for many applicants and employers - particularly so businesses given increased NI costs on UK firms …
- Reading support devices (such as magnifiers, colour overlays, overlays to minimise glare/lighting)
- Project management software
- Voice recorders
- Mental Health management software
- Writing and reading support software…
- Reading support devices (such as magnifiers, colour overlays, overlays to minimise glare/lighting)
- Project management software
- Voice recorders
- Mental Health management software
- Writing and reading support software
- Laptops and laptop stands…
- Headphones, headsets and microphones
- Document holders
- Back support, footrests, foot stools, arm rests, wrist support devices, etc.
- Telephone adaptors…
In these latest updates AtW have clarified what they consider to be 'standard business items' which won't be funded, such as;
- Chairs (including ergonomic)
- Desks (including ergonomic, standing, adjustable, etc)
- Keyboards (including ergonomic)
- Mice (including ergonomic)…
4. Removing flexibility to allow small increases in support without the need to raise a Change of Circumstance.
Access to Work have always worked on the basis that they provide support 'above and beyond Reasonable Adjustments' and they don't fund 'standard business items'…
The areas of change are:
1. Special Aides and Equipment - more pushback onto employers.
2. Hard limits on Support Worker hourly rates
3. Stricter rules and criteria for awarding Job Aide Support Workers …
And for more detail see Alice’s LinkedIn post …AtW are making changes to operational delivery, with s 'go-live' date of 6th May. They will affect all decisions made after this date, whether they are on new applications, reconsiderations, renewals or changes of circumstances…
these changes are likely to be significant for everyone including claimants (new and current), employers, and service providers … Particularly as we collectively strive to both get, and keep Britain 🇬🇧 working … A short summary of the proposed changes follows…
🧵 🚨 Breaking Access to Work News - changes coming from tomorrow, May 6th 🚨
I thank Disability Consultant Alice Hastie for flagging upcoming changes to DWP Access to Work schemes 'operational delivery'. In theory, there is no actual change in policy, but in practice …
Having been involved in several insurance industry initiatives with various Governments over the last 30 years I 💯 agree with the Health & Social Care Committee 👇
#LetsFixCare as in bringing the nation together to do so, we go a long way to aiding fix the UK 🇬🇧
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Let’s create UK workplaces, safe places and ecosystems where everyone can thrive and both get, and keep … Britain working and earning.
#LetsFixBritain 🇬🇧
It has links to useful resources to enable employers to become more confident when attracting, recruiting, developing and retaining disabled people ( + personal disclosure, disabled people like me )…
updated Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) guidance and information for employers … And it’s purpose of helping employers and managers improve their understanding of disability and assisting them recruit and support disabled people and those with long term health conditions in work …
As Patron of the Vocational Rehabilitation Association UK 🇬🇧 www.vraassociationuk.com and a GAIN (Group for Autism, Insurance, Investment & Neurodiversity) www.gaintogether.org founder and board member I welcome this …
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I hold we should expect our government departments to set the gold standard in supporting vulnerable people, especially so where they sponsor essential UK sector regulators and require them to prioritise vulnerable customer identification and support interventions
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We are reaping the consequences of UK Government and societal failure to embrace prevention and supporting healthy ageing re all of the determinants of health.This compounded by our ageing UK that increasingly needs to work and care lacking a national care strategy.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Thank you Impact Match for our discussion - To anyone with a disability or carer role and taking your first career step or returning to the workplace, I urge you to consider a career in insurance —For info see
www.cii.co.uk/careers-in-i...
impactmatch.global/2025/04/11/i...
📢 Today is #WorldConsumerRightsDay and the 40th anniversary of the United Nations Guidelines for Consumer Protection (#UNGCP) 🎉🌍
#ImproveOutcomes
“As Patron of the Vocational Rehabilitation Association, I am pleased to announce the guide ‘Help! What support can firms give disabled consumers and people in vulnerable situations?’ is now available at: shorturl.at/1qM0x
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I’m looking forward to joining Rt Hon Baroness Morgan of Cotes and the StepChange Debt Charity in the House of Lords tomorrow, Feb 11th, to discuss ‘Looking to this Parliament and Beyond: A Policy Blueprint to Boost Women’s Financial Resilience.’
#Build in the right places,
#Build with the right materials, and
#Build with resilience as standard.
Let’s #PreventForeseeableHarms, embrace #ResilienceByDesign and #ImproveOutcomes
